I love the Leighton Denny Nail polishes and The Leighton Denny Crystal Nail file is my all time fav as my nails are so thick and long that no other file works for me without being worn down after three nails.

I contacted Leighton Denny and Rebecca Wilson who handles PR at Leighton Denny kindly send me this Press release of the new collection.

This new collection looks amazing! All of the colours are so on trend for 2013 Spring/Summer and are colours that i would definitely be painting my nails with this season.

My personal favorites are 'I’M SO SOIRÉE' and 'YES WE CANNES'. I haven't seen a shade like 'YES WE CANNES' before and think it looks and sounds beautiful. Leighton Dennys Nail polishes which have shimmer in are always very pigmented and lovely!

YES WE CANNES

I'm sure once I've painted my nails with 'I’M SO SOIRÉE' I probably wont be using any other shade as this is my kind of colour. Its not too dark and harsh as a black would be on the nails but a lush Dark Aqua Blue which i imagine would just look great!

I’M SO SOIRÉE

The 'GET YOUR CÔTE' shade is a must have this season as this Azure Blue colour is EVERYWHERE at the moment. There are so many shops selling lovely jumpers and scarfs that are exactly this colour and this nail polish on your nails would look amazing.

This Beauties Factory 120 Colour eye shadow pallet is just amazing! I use it all the time for make up looks and it just has every eye shadow that you would ever need, if your make up look is a neutral one or a bold eye look then this pallet is perfect! Its a really amazing pallet and its a very reasonable price too! I got mine for £21.99 from the Beauties Factory Website linked above and below. The colours are very pigmented so you don't need much product on your brush at all, and they are also build-able too so you can build up a colour to your desired intensity.

I have also used this pallet on my cheeks and lips also as blush and lip stain. Its so versatile and compact!

This is a photo from a few weeks ago. I was trying out my new VIVO nail polish in the shade Some Day and my black and silver nail art pens from Primark.

I was really impressed with the VIVO nail polish Its really quick drying and Lasted almost a week without top coat as I find my Seche Vita top coat just peels my nail polish off after a day ( if that! ). The VIVO nail polish also is super cheap! I think it was £1.

I decided to do a leopard print on my pinky, a silver rhinestone design on my 4th finger, silver polka dots on my middle finger, a chevron design on my index finger and black zebra print on my thumb.

I really liked this nail art as its Funky and the VIVO in Some Day is such a nice shade of blue/teal , its like a Tiffany & co blue colour.

I decided to do this Nail art as the GEEK NERD DWEEB T-shirts have been really popular in nearly every shop at the moment. So I jumped on the bang wagon and came up with this nail art design.

I used Avon's Nail Polish in the shade Orange Creamsicle and a Black Nail Art Pen which I bought from Primark which has a small pen nip for precision and a thin nail art brush.

I love the Avon Nail wear Pro Nail Polishes as they are really pigmented and opaque I think I applied two coats of this polish but its so nice and smooth. I also used my Seche Vite Top coat once I had finished my nails. The Seche Vite top coat is really highly raved about but I just don't get it. I do love how glossy my nails look once they have dried and this top coat is super quick drying but I just find it chips so quickly and doesn't last very long at all. Its supposed to be the BEST top coat around but as I've said I find it chips and most the time literally a day after I've painted them (if that) then I find a whole nail of polish will peel off in one piece.

Let me know if you have the same experience with Seche Vite Top Coat. Also leave me a comment letting me know your FAV Top coat please , I need to replace this one with a good long lasting one.

This post is an update on how I get my hair red. I posted a few years ago about how I dyed my hair red as I was getting a lot of comments on my hair and the colour. I used to use various Schwartzkopf XXL red permanent colours on my hair but after 3 years of having my hair red and constantly wanting it brighter and brighter, I decided I was either going to have to bleach my hair to blonde and then colour it a red or not have it as bright as I wanted. The bleach option I really wanted to try as I had seen many people do it that way and it was what I wanted but in the long run the bleach would have wrecked my hair and as my hair is so long and thick my mum ( who is a hairdresser) was adamant she was NOT going to bleach it for me to get it bright red.

After lot of research and watching loads of 'Rihanna Red Hair' videos on YouTube, I found that I did not have to bleach my hair to get it brighter than I had already. I had watched a few videos where people where using colours on their hair which kind of had bleach in them so instead of bleaching your hair first then colouring it red, the colour was a mix of colour and bleach and lifts your natural colour whilst colouring it red. This seamed a much better idea as i wasn't going to convince my mum to bleach it for me. She had a look into the colour and we decided to give the L'Oreal Majicontract Red a go.

I bought the Majicontrast Red from my local Sally's Express and It retails at £10.00 for a 50ml tube. I had to buy 2 of these as my hair is so long. My mum gets discount in Sally's as she has a trade card with them so it was a little cheaper. But this colour is a colour that would be used in a salon hence why it is more expensive than a box colour like Schwartzkopf . She then also bought a creme peroxide which was 9% 30vol. Im not sure on how much she mixes as i am not a professional but she then mixed some creme peroxide with the Majicontrast and starts applying it to my roots.

As my roots are a natural brown colour it takes longer to lift my natural colour than it does my faded old red lengths of my hair. After say 20 minutes approx with the colour on my roots she then applies the rest of the colour to my lengths and ends of my hair.

The results of this where WOW! I was so pleased with how much it had lifted my hair colour and it was a really nice bright red. Still not as bright as if i had bleached it as that would be dying a red over white bleach blonde hair so would definitely be brighter but its the brightest my hair has ever been without actually bleaching it blonde before hand.

I definitely reccomend trying this method on your hair if you want to get brighter red hair than a box colour can give you. If your hair is naturally blonde or a lighter brown than mine then your results would be as if you had bleached it and would be as I call 'Rihanna Red' or 'Jodie Marsh' red hair.

Please note that I am not a professional hair dresser, my mum is and she is the one who dyes my hair for me. Please always ask the sales assistant when buying any hair colour and creme peroxide what % vol you should buy for your hair. I used the 30vol peroxide as my hair is naturally brown and blondes wouldn't need this high a creme peroxide.

I will be dyeing my hair again soon as I have BAD roots and need to redo my whole head of red :) so as I'm Filming more regularly now on Youtube I will record a video next time I'm getting my hair done so you can see exactly what I mean. And I will explain in another post and video how I maintain my red and wash it without it fading as much.

Here is my Babyliss Pro Conical Curling Wand Tutorial/Review Video. I mentioned this Curling Wand in my What I Got For Christmas Haul and wanted to show you exactly how I use it to tight curl and loose curl my hair. I love this wand. I was very unsure on whether to buy a curling wand at all before Christmas as my hair is very thick and doesn't normally hold a curl well unless its been curled with my GHD straighteners As my hair is naturally straight curls made with any other styler normally fall out very fast so I did a lot of research before deciding to buy this one as I needed to make sure it would work on my hair.

There were tons of reviews on numerous websites about the babyliss curling wand which said that it was really good and worked on a whole load of different types of hair, long, short, thin, thick, coloured etc so i decided that a babyliss Curling wand was the one I would buy. I then managed to get the Babyliss Pro Curling wand which is this one and its amazing!

I got my wand from Sally's. It was £34.99 reduced to £24.99 then as I have a Sally's Trade Card which entitles me to discount, I actually payed £19.99 at the till. I was really happy with this price and the wand for the money is amazing! It in my opinion is as good as high priced curlers and the sales advisers in Sally's agreed that it was just as good.

If your looking to try a curling wand, I recommend trying this wand out, as I said before my hair is very thick and long and holds the curls made with this wand really well and they last all day! So if your hair isn't as long as mine and not as thick then I think it would be amazing for you.

Hope this Tutorial and Review help you decide if your on the hunt for a new curling wand or wanting to try something new.

Thanks for reading and watching!

Sophie

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Disclaimer: I have not been payed to give this review and tutorial. I bought this Babyliss Wand with my own money and haven't been sponsored by Babyliss or Sally's Beauty Supplies or Sally's Express.

Here is my What I Got For Christmas 2012 Haul. I've watched so many of these videos on YouTube and decided to film my own as i was very lucky and I really appreciated every gift that i received this Christmas!

This video is in no way bragging about what i received, its just sharing with you my gifts as i love seeing what everyone got and thought you would all like to see mine x

Sorry i have been a rubbish blogger lately, I've just started filming regular YouTube videos and life is hectic at the moment so I will try my best to Blog , Tweet , YouTube and Share my beauty related photographs and videos on Beautylish as often as possible.